A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7233, 2009, Pages 1109-1111

  Minton, David A ^a   Malhotra, Renu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; GRAVITY FIELD; PLANET; RESONANCE; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITY; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; METEOROLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ORBIT; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLAR CYCLE;

EID: 61349088519     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07778     Document Type: Article

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